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AMD reveal more on FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 (FSR)
25 March 2022 at 8:17 am UTC

Quoting: JahimselfOn the screenshot, if you watch it full picture, and look the first face on the foreground, you can better compare native to other FSR. You can observe how it alterate the overall image.

The white bit with the "carbon fiber" texture? yeah I did wonder why the 'quality' seems to double the size of the pattern not of the other seems to do that.

Linux 5.17 is out now with new AMD P-State driver
21 March 2022 at 1:18 pm UTC

Quoting: Tuxee
Quoting: GuppyWonder if that means that nvidia will allow nvidia-powerd to work with AMD cpus now, getting a bit old hat that my 130w gpu is locked at 80w on Linux

Shame Mint is still stuck on 5.13 - haven't had to compile a kernel my self in some 15 years and I'm now about to start now

Can't you use the Ubuntu mainline kernels?

v5.17 Mainline Test

Maybe but last time I investigated ( due to unupported wifi card ) using that would break the system with every nvidia driver update if running the closed source drivers

Linux 5.17 is out now with new AMD P-State driver
21 March 2022 at 10:33 am UTC Likes: 2

Wonder if that means that nvidia will allow nvidia-powerd to work with AMD cpus now, getting a bit old hat that my 130w gpu is locked at 80w on Linux

Shame Mint is still stuck on 5.13 - haven't had to compile a kernel my self in some 15 years and I'm now about to start now

Starting this Summer, iFixit will offer Steam Deck replacement parts
8 March 2022 at 7:30 am UTC Likes: 1

This makes me wonder if it would be possible to buy enough spare parts to build a 'steam console' out of them, I imagine it wouldn't be a cheap option but would make a cool project - and the hardware is guaranteed to work with linux out of the box ;)

PipeWire is the future for Linux audio and I am sold on it
1 March 2022 at 10:08 am UTC Likes: 1

That looks amazing, hopefully en a few decades when this makes it into mainline Mint you can even route individual browser tabs as well.

Between music, softphone and the various online meeting all running in the browser I could really do with being able to split it to different outputs so customers don't have to wait for me to switch default output from the speakers to the headset every time I receive a call

Watch Valve's Gabe Newell deliver some Steam Decks
1 March 2022 at 8:31 am UTC Likes: 1

Imagine the getting home from work to the conversation that starts "So this fat old guy with a camera crew dropped off a package for you?"

Secondly (a little rant about car safety you can skip) - in the car ( eg. at https://youtu.be/9Dy-KWjp-m0?t=216 ) He is not wearing a seat belt which is bad, but how on earth did she manage to put on the seat belt that wrong? if the car crashes she will break her neck on the seat in front of her. A 3 point seat belt is NOT meant to be worn like that, your better off not using it than using it wrong :|

Dying Light 2 Stay Human is out and works well on Linux
7 February 2022 at 7:51 am UTC

Not having completed even the base game of the first one is it worth picking this one up?

I mean is there anything new to the game or is it just an "expand-alone" ?

If you still don't own Stellaris it's currently free with Amazon Prime Gaming
3 February 2022 at 7:03 am UTC

Something to be aware of, if you have Amazon's "prime video" and *do not* live in a country where they offer "amazon prime" (the montly free shipping thing ) you still get prime gaming ( and a free monthly twich subscription )

The list of countries not to live in is currenty:

  • Australia

  • Austria

  • Belgium

  • Brazil

  • Canada

  • France

  • Germany

  • Italy

  • Japan

  • Luxembourg

  • Mexico

  • Netherlands

  • Poland

  • Portugal

  • Saudi Arabia

  • Singapore

  • Spain

  • Sweden

  • Turkey

  • The United Arab Emirates

  • United Kingdom

  • USA

Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard
18 January 2022 at 2:56 pm UTC Likes: 7

I can't wrap my head around this.. the company behind such fantastically moderate successes as

- Clippy
- The MehBox gaming console
- The "well it came with the computer" OS

buys the company that has basically had it's own money printing press from having 11+ Million people throwing money at their face every month + whenever they released a digital bling pack..


how..

Linux Mint 20.3 is out with theme adjustments, Document Manager, Dark Mode
11 January 2022 at 10:17 am UTC

For those of you who braved the update - when you to "update manager" -> view -> kernels ( -> make the warning go away ) is 5.15 on the list yet or is it still capped at 5.13 ?